Jacob Riis (1849 -1914) COM 241 Photography I
Documentary photos • Reflect a humanitarian point of view – Usually focus on people – Capture a way of life • Realistic – Meant to represent fact – Accurate and truthful
Jacob Riis • (pronounced reese) • “America’s first photojournalist” • Born in Denmark, immigrated to U. S. when he was 21 • Lived in one of police-run poor houses in NYC • Eventually got a job as a crime reporter for New York Tribune
• Wrote a series of articles on living conditions on Lower East Side of NY – No one took seriously • Decided to document with photographs • One of first photographers to use flash
• “How the Other Half Lives” in 1890 • As result of his photos, city closed police-run poor houses
Photo Analysis Questions Directions: You will analyze three pictures. You will use the following questions to analyze these primary sources: – – – What do you see? What do you smell? What sounds do you hear? What are the feelings of the people in the picture? What are your feelings about the photo?
Bottle Alley, Mulberry Road
Jacob Riis Bandit's Roost, 59 1/2 Mulberry Street c. 1888
Jacob Riis Mullen's Alley, Cherry Hill c. 1888
Old house on a Bleecker Street back lot, between Mercer and Greene Street
Typical tenement fire-escape serving as an extension of the flat: Allen Street
Jersey Street tenements
Home of an Italian Rag Picker on Jersey Street. c. 1888
Police station lodgers, West 47 Street, early 1890 s
Men's Lodging Room in the West 47 th Street Station c. 1892
Police station lodgers waiting to be let out c. 1892
Police station lodgers, Madison Street
Bunks in a seven-cent lodging-house, Pell Street
Police station lodgers, West 47 Street, early 1890 s
"Knee-pants" at forty-five cents a dozen--a Ludlow Street sweater's shop
Twelve-year-old boy (who had sworn he was sixteen) pulling threads in a sweat shop, about 1889
Bohemian cigarmakers at work in their tenement
Girl and a baby on a doorstep
Fighting tuberculosis on the roof.
Bottle Alley, Mulberry Bend
The man slept in this cellar four years, about 1890
In poverty Gap, West 28 Street: an English coal-heaver's home
![Street Arabs in Sleeping Quarters [church corner]](https://present5.com/presentation/608492732aa9f70fad09ab58860bb17f/image-28.jpg "Street Arabs in Sleeping Quarters [church corner]")
Street Arabs in Sleeping Quarters [church corner]
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Street Arabs in sleeping quarters [areaway, Mulberry St. ]
Getting ready for supper in the newsboys' lodging-house
A flat in the pauper barracks, West 38 St. , with all its furniture
A blind beggar stands in the middle of a street and begs for someone to buy one of his pencils.
Police Station Lodger, A Plank for a Bed c. 1890
Street Arabs in night quarters
On the roof of the Barracks
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